Goldsboro Gazette

09/10/2024

23/01/2024

The Paramount Theatre has been awarded as one of the recipients for the 2023-2024 Grassroots Arts Program Grant sponsored by the North Carolina Arts Council

With these funds, The Paramount Theatre will bring forth award-winning performers, including North Carolina's own Yolanda Rabin, Hall of Fame musical legends The Drifters, and North Carolina Poet Laureate and spoken-word artist Dana Alan, accompanied by a jazz ensemble. Additionally, the lineup features legendary North Carolina-based artists, including Venezuelan Llanera musician Larry Bellorin and the Grammy-nominated Joe Troop.

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22/01/2024

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18/01/2024

Lines of farmers bring cucumbers to market for the pickle industry in Mt. Olive, NC in June of 1947.
In 1926 the Mt. Olive Pickle Company was formally incorporated by local business people in Wayne County.⁣
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The effort to start the company arose within the community, and the original group of 13 local shareholders invested $19,500 to establish a company to pack and sell pickles.⁣
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The shareholders purchased an acre of land for $1,000, constructed a 3,600-square-foot building and hired a factory superintendent and a sales representative. The salesman, Shickrey Baddour, a Lebanese immigrant, had conceived of the idea for the factory when he saw cucumbers rotting in area fields. Within just a few weeks, the number of shareholders grew from 13 to 21.⁣
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Mt. Olive Pickle Company started an employee profit sharing program in 1943, becoming one of the first companies in the country to do so. In the early days, records indicate that most of the work at the plant was done by hand. Since then, it has grown into an innovative and modern facility distributing the country’s bestselling brand of pickles.⁣
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Today, the factory complex still includes that original acre and is located at the corner of Cucumber and Vine Streets in Mt. Olive.
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From the Conservation and Development Photograph File, State Archives of NC.

17/11/2023

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🎄 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas 🎄

As Downtown Lights Up is approaching, we wanted to give everyone a rain update. We are monitoring the weather closely. Everything is still in place for Downtown Lights Up to happen on its original date, Tuesday the 21st. But we do want to be proactive and make sure that, if it does rain this Tuesday, this wonderful event can still happen.

Our rain date is Tuesday, November 28th. We will make the call on Monday, the 20th, whether or not we need to change the event from the 21st to the 28th. But as it stands, Downtown Lights Up is still scheduled for THIS Tuesday the 21st.

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20/09/2023

Just a reminder that this event is tonight at 6pm at .co - 109 E Ash st.

18/09/2023

Very cool event coming up this Wednesday .co
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Great opportunity to meet and talk with Goldsboro’s future leadership. Early voting for municipal elections starts this Thursday September 21 at 🗳️

07/08/2023

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